Tuesday, August 03, 2010

best. cookies. ever.

in the kitchen

The melt-in-your-mouth buttermilk chocolate cookies recipe from Baking Bites truly lives up to its name. These are amazingly good. Rich and chocolatey, chewy and just a little bit tangy. The recipe doesn't call for any eggs, which is surprising and also very handy to have in your recipe arsenal. Then again, it's quite rare that my fridge is stocked with buttermilk but no eggs.

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on & off the needles

The baby boom continues among my friends and relative (it must be an early-thirties thing), so I'm working on baby gifts! This is my first foray into knitting wool soakers, a concept that's simultaneously awesome and kind of gross.

An easy and quick pattern! These are knit flat in one piece and then seamed up the sides. You then pick up stitches for the legs. I had a hard time figuring out how loosely to bind off the leg openings. We'll see how they work! Next time I'd try a pattern that's knit in the round, as the seams may be a bit annoying. These are worn over bulky diapers, so the seams won't be next to the skin at least.

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on the tube

I'm totally hooked on The Fabulous Beekman Boys on the Green channel this summer. Brent and Josh, a couple of "big city" guys, have renovated a beautiful farm in upstate New York and are building a business making goat cheese and goat milk soap, two of my favorite things in the world. These guys are a hoot, and I just love how Farmer John cares so much for his goats. Brent's really something -- kind of a drama queen, and Josh manages to keep the couple tethered down to earth. Josh, of course, is a Wisconsin native. :-)

10 comments:

Ha! I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks the concept of a soaker is kinda gross. :) I know about a million pregnant ladies, too. There was a big boom a couple of years ago and it's starting up again. Must be something in the water!

What a full post! I am so making those cookies! And the little soaker is adorable. I would love to see that show, I wonder if I can get that? And great showcase of yummy Madison goodies - within minutes of reading your post I had my husband convinced that we must go to the farmer's market saturday - it was the spicy cheese bread that convinced me:)

I swear I got a little sniff of baby urine when I saw your pic of the soaker, ha, ha. We used used wool diaper covers with our daughter, which was basically the same. For the some reason, by the time, my son came along, we thought that maybe we would choose other areas to be environmentally responsible and use Pampers instead.

I'm not entirely sure I understand "soakers" (none of my friends have kids, and we don't), but I'm guessing from the name that it isn't pleasant. I think I'll stick to buying books and knitting a little sweater for new moms. :)

I've not seen the show, but I think anytime city people go to a farm, it's going to be hilarious. How far we have come from the time that everyone had to provide for themselves from the land.